Yesterday Plenilunio Santa Cruz closed a weekend of intense cultural and leisure activity in the capital of Tenerife, which thousands of people have enjoyed. This was announced by the mayor, José Manuel Bermúdez, who stressed that “from Friday to Sunday the capital hosted an infinite number of activities aimed at all audiences that were a complete success.”
In this sense, the president reported that the three days have taken place completely normally, with a proposal of very high quality content, a diversity of cultural, sports and leisure actions that have energized the city for three days in more than 20 different locations, and from which “commerce and restaurants have also benefited.”
For her part, the CEO of the Development Society, Carmen Pérez, reported on the assessment survey carried out by the City Council to the attending public, the results of which “are very good.” Thus, she specified that until 12:00 yesterday, 87% of those surveyed rated the event as ‘good (5)’ or ‘very good (6)’, scores from 1 to 6, where 6 is the highest possible rating.
In addition, of the 601 surveys carried out up to that point, 20.3% responded that it was the first time they attended Plenilunio, “so in this edition we have managed to once again attract an audience that had not come before,” said Pérez. .
Regarding these first assessments, the counselor highlighted that “53% of the public that has attended Plenilunio Santa Cruz resides in the capital of Tenerife, and the rest comes mainly from other municipalities in the metropolitan area, such as La Laguna, Tegueste and El Rosario, while a significant 18.5% do so from other municipalities.”
Santa Cruz Full Moon 2023. / Fran Pallero
Santa Cruz Full Moon 2023. / Fran Pallero
Santa Cruz Full Moon 2023. / Fran Pallero
Santa Cruz Full Moon 2023. / Fran Pallero
Santa Cruz Full Moon 2023. / Fran Pallero
According to these first results “it can be said that Plenilunio Santa Cruz continues to maintain a high rating among citizens, also attracting an important group of audiences from other areas of Tenerife and also people who had never come to this event before,” he said. Perez.
The counselor said that it had been “an intense weekend, with activities for the whole family where culture, leisure, sports and gastronomy were the protagonists.”
In this sense, he highlighted the “positive” response of the citizens and proof of this was the influx of the events that took place in the García Sanabria park, the cultural activities in the Plaza del Príncipe, the concerts in the Plaza de La Candelaria or even the theatrical visits Doubloons for Eternity, by the Burka Theater company, in the San Rafael and San Roque cemetery, and the traditional historical reenactment of the English attack on Santa Cruz or the Second World War in the Military Historical Center Almeyda Museum.
While on Saturday the drizzles at times reduced the attendance of the public, yesterday the sun shone all day and allowed attendees to enjoy from early to late afternoon all the programming and spaces such as Le Good Market, where They brought together gastronomy, musical performances and children’s workshops; the Chicharrok Festival on the maritime avenue, or the traditional Christmas Market in the Plaza de España.
The Guimerá Theater hosted the Morimoto Sisters concert, in the same location where the tango exhibition by Andrés Leoni took place at noon, and the little ones had their space in the Alameda del Duque de Santa Elena where a children’s play center was organized with children’s workshops and inflatable attractions.
Culture lovers had a variety of proposals yesterday. At the Museum of Nature and Archeology (MUNA), guided tours on pollination, ethology and cinatura were carried out; in the Plaza del Príncipe there were theatrical performances by Timaginas Teatro and Bolina Teatro, while at the TEA Tenerife the Tenerife International Photography Biennial Fotonoviembre could be seen and the film El Zorro (Der Fuchs) was screened at 7:00 p.m. in original version in German with Spanish subtitles.
Unlike the first days, in which the programming was extended until midnight, yesterday it closed after 8:00 p.m., although there were many people who were left wanting to continue enjoying Plenilunio Santa Cruz but who will have to wait, to do so, until the next edition of one of the most anticipated initiatives in the capital and the Island.
